Mil cavalls de potència
— An exhibition curated by Sabel Gavaldon
3 — 19 June 2016
'A Thousand Horsepower' will temporarily reopen the doors of the old textile factory Can Trinxet in L'Hospitalet, through an exhibition and events programme that invites us to discover the many reverberations that traverse a post-industrial space such as this factory.
A Thousand Horsepower will temporarily reopen the doors of the old textile factory Can Trinxet in L’Hospitalet, through an exhibition and events programme that invites us to discover the many reverberations —historical, material and affective— that traverse a post-industrial space such as this factory. The selection of works includes Fordlandia (2014) by British artist Melanie Smith (Poole, 1965), based in Mexico since 1989. This immersive video installation portrays the ruins of Fordlandia, the industrial colony that tycoon Henry Ford erected in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in the 1920s. The exhibition also includes the video Double Dawn (2014) by Austrian filmmaker Lukas Marxt (Schladming, 1983), which allows the audience to experience in real time a solar eclipse taking place shortly after sunrise in the post-apocalyptic landscape of a uranium mine.
A Thousand Horsepower includes works by artists Mark Bain, Nina Canell, Lúa Coderch, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Rolf Julius, Lukas Marxt, Fran Meana, Melanie Smith, and Iza Tarasewicz.
‘Mil cavalls de potència’ curated by Sabel Gavaldon ©Eva Fabregas
‘Mil cavalls de potència’ curated by Sabel Gavaldon ©Eva Fabregas
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